Amnesty International on Monday demanded that Israel release Ahed al-Tamimi a 16-year-old Palestinian teenager who faces assault charges after she was filmed slapping and shoving Israeli soldiers last month in her West Bank village of Nabi Saleh.
The human rights organization slammed Ahed Tamimi’s detention as she appeared in court Monday.
“Nothing that Ahed Tamimi has done can justify the continuing detention of a 16-year-old girl. The Israeli authorities must release her without delay. In capturing an unarmed teenage girl’s assault on two armed soldiers wearing protective gear the footage of this incident shows that she posed no actual threat and that her punishment is blatantly disproportionate” said Magdalena Mughrabi deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty.
“Ahed Tamimi’s ensuing arrest and military trial exposes the Israeli authorities’ discriminatory treatment of Palestinian children who dare to stand up to ongoing often brutal repression by occupying forces” she added.
Tamimi was arrested along with her cousin and mother following a footage from the December 15 encounter in Nabi Saleh that shows the teenager and her cousin Nour approaching two Israeli soldiers then shoving kicking and slapping them while filming on their cellphones.
